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Digital Futures Institute
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The Digital Futures Institute is a leading regional hub for technology focused research, knowledge exchange, consultancy and training. The Institute has its principal base at the DigiTech Centre on Adastral Park, and collaborates closely with partners such as BT plc and Innovation Martlesham companies.
Vision
To develop and apply computer science and engineering in creative, sustainable and responsible ways for the betterment of society, the economy and individual citizens.
Mission
The Digital Futures Institute undertakes research and knowledge exchange across a broad range of computer science and cognate engineering areas. The Institute collaborates with academic partners in the UK and internationally on activities of mutual interest. The Institute supports and works with multinational companies, small-to-medium-sized enterprises and third sector organisations on technical consultancy, funded innovation projects and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
Themes
The Digital Futures Institute has four broad themes of research:
- Technology: This encompasses future networks, cyber security and improving software development itself. This includes considerations of quality of service and the sustainability of computing in terms of reducing energy consumption.
- People: This covers human-computer interaction, accessible design, mixed realities (virtual, extended, and augmented), vision science and gamification. Our work includes the development of apps, serious games and improving entertainment games.
- Applications: This is an information-centric theme, focusing principally on applying artificial intelligence and data science techniques to text, audio, image and video data in a variety of domains such as health. This theme also includes elements of knowledge management, computing education and responsible AI.
- Engineering: This theme is cyber-physical in nature combining software and equipment. This embraces interests in drones, Internet-of-Things devices, new sensors and sensing techniques, and more.
Although the Institute’s expertise can be categorised into themes, projects can and do straddle multiple themes and connect outwith to other Institutes and elsewhere in the University.
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Our People
Professor Nicholas Caldwell
Professor Nicholas Caldwell is Professor of Information Systems Engineering at the University of Suffolk.
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Jo Durham
Jo is a Research Institute Administrator for the Suffolk Sustainability Institute and the Digital Futures Institute based at Digitech Centre
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Dr Salman Ahmed
Salman Ahmed is a Research Fellow at the DigiTech Centre, Digital Futures Institute.
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Dr Adam Clayden
Dr. Adam Clayden received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2019). He currently leads BSc (Hons) Games Development at University of Suffolk.
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Dr Adnane Ez-zizi
Dr Adnane Ez-zizi is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Course Leader for the MSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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Hisham Jaward
Hisham is a lecturer in Computing and AI. Work at previous universities in Monash, Bristol and Imperial College, UK, have included developing algorithms.
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Dr Felix Ngobigha
Dr Felix Ngobigha is a Senior Lecturer in Network Engineering and had previously been Scientific Officer with the Centre for Satellite Technology Development.
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Dr Syed Jan
Dr. Syed Jan has been a full-time lecturer in Computing at the University of Suffolk since June 2023. He has almost fourteen years experience working in HE.
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Dr Syed Aslam
Syed joined the University of Suffolk in August 2022 and is a Lecturer in Computing. He has a phD in Computer Science from Bangor University.
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Dr Kakia Chatsiou
Kakia is a Lecturer in Computing with expertise in machine learning, information management systems and data science.
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Godwin Dzvapatsva
Godwin is a Lecturer in Computing in the School of Technology, Business, and Arts.
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Dr Shahroz Nadeem
Computing lecturer Shahroz specialises in deep learning methods for violence detection, image stegnography, image deblurring and super-resolution among others.
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Dr Javiera Atenas
Javiera leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PgCAP) and is Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Enhancement.
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- Professor Valerie Gladwell - Director of Institute of Health and Wellbeing
- Dr Rachael Martin - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Professor Brian McCook - Dean of School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Professor Darryl Newport - Director of Suffolk Sustainability Institute
- Dr Keith Ruiter - Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Dr Javiera Atenas - Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Enhancement
- Dr Abbie Millett - Senior Lecturer in Psychology
- Graeme Derby - Head of Business Development and Knowledge Exchange
- India Green - Knowledge Exchange Manager
- Rory Bannerman - Knowledge Exchange Officer
- Prof Babak Akhgar - Visiting Professor of Informatics
- Prof Ben Azvine - Visiting Professor of Security Systems
- Dr Bhushan Bonde - Visiting Professor of Computational Biology
- Dr David Heatley - Visiting Professor of e-Health Innovation
- Dr Andrew Jones - Visiting Professor of Cyber Security
- Lisa Perkins - Visiting Professor of Telecommunications
- Prof Duncan Bell - Visiting Professor of Medicine
- Dr Mahesh Prahladan - Visiting Professor of Haematology
- Fred Langford (ISJC) - Visiting Professor in Safeguarding Technology
- Prof. Mohamed Abdel-Maguid - Visiting Professor of Smart Systems
- Prof. Peter Cochrane - Professor Digital Economy and Strategic Innovation Management
- Prof Steven Furnell - Visiting Professor of Cyber Security
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